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title: "Picking a format - Air Market"
description: "You are extracting a document and there are several formats to choose from, with no obvious reason to prefer one. This matches who is going to read the output next, whether that is a model, a parser,…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/picking-a-format"
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[Air Market](/) / [Data & Analytics](/category/data) / Picking a format

Skill by [Xberg.io](/@xberg-io)

# Picking a format

Know which output format your extracted document should be in

## What this does

You are extracting a document and there are several formats to choose from, with no obvious reason to prefer one. This matches who is going to read the output next, whether that is a model, a parser, or an archive, to the format and content-format pair that suits it.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Pick an output format for an extracted document
- Choose the right format for feeding a model
- Choose a format for a parser or an archive

## Information

**Picking a format at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Xberg.io](/@xberg-io) |
| Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 4 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [xberg-io/xberg](https://github.com/xberg-io/xberg/tree/07203d6ff1d471bca4d9dfecb27fe770e2c8b867/plugin/skills/picking-a-format) |
| GitHub stars | 9,202 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 29, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Picking a format and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Picking a format's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 07203d6ff1d471bca4d9dfecb27fe770e2c8b867 |
| Content hash | b45307715e1c0241cecfd339aebb29c88367c533ced4d04a55167722d5c855a2 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/xberg-io/xberg/blob/07203d6ff1d471bca4d9dfecb27fe770e2c8b867/plugin/skills/picking-a-format/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Picking a format](/security/picking-a-format)

## About Picking a format

Covers choosing an output format for extracted documents among text, markdown, djot, html, and JSON.

It maps the consumer of the output, whether an LLM, a parser, or an archive, to the right format and content-format pair.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Picking a format safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Picking a format and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 07203d6ff1d4, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/picking-a-format.

### How do I install Picking a format?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/picking-a-format on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/xberg-io/xberg/tree/07203d6ff1d471bca4d9dfecb27fe770e2c8b867/plugin/skills/picking-a-format. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Data & Analytics listings](/category/data)
- [Everything by Xberg.io](/@xberg-io)

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